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Convenience Store Whitepapers
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July 24, 2009
ITCi White Paper: Challenges and Opportunities of PCI
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) provides an enterprise structure for improving operational, security, and audit performance. The benefits of the PCI DSS go beyond audit costs and results, however.

As a security model, PCI requirements can help companies control compliance costs and build a more efficient and reliable IT infrastructure that delivers better service while incurring less risk.

This whitepaper from the IT Compliance Institute looks at:

   •PCI basics and compliance challenges
   •Exploiting PCI's opportunities and improving business performance with PCI DSS controls
   •Suggestions for a smooth PCI implementation
   •Measuring PCI performance gains

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July 24, 2009
Beyond PCI Checklists: Securing Cardholder Data with Enhanced File Integrity Monitoring
Many organizations pass a PCI DSS audit, but still find themselves in the news after suffering a security breach. Part of the issue may be that the configuration settings were compliant with the settings specified in the PCI DSS, but only for a point in time. This white paper discusses:

   •The two areas of technical controls the PCI DSS requires-configuration and change process controls.
   •How Configuration Assessment helps you address the configuration checklist items in the PCI DSS.
   •How Enhanced File Integrity Monitoring helps you maintain PCI DSS compliance over time in the face of configuration change. Download Whitepaper
September 22, 2009
Flavored Cigarettes: Guidance For Industry And FDA Staff
General Questions and Answers on the Ban of Cigarettes that Contain Certain Characterizing Flavors
August 01, 2009
Protecting Your Investment
Six things you need to know before you purchase your next convenience store.
July 29, 2009
Summer Employees: More Than Just Convenience
How to ensure you’re getting the most out of seasonal employees.
July 22, 2009
Achieving Energy Efficiency
ExxonMobil worked with Emerson Climate Technologies to install an energy management system that would deliver both energy and maintenance savings. ExxonMobil wanted to be able to communicate remotely with its stores, log data collected from the operation of HVAC, refrigeration, and lighting equipment at each site and develop a real-time monitoring solution that addresses alarms automatically.
July 17, 2009
Breaking The Cost Barrier Of Trade Promotion Management
Despite the sheer volume of spending on trade promotions, some studies estimate as many as 60% of CG companies are still relying on manual processes, desktop spreadsheet applications, and custom-built tools for promotion planning, tracking, and reconciliation.
July 16, 2009
St1 Energy Company Finds Forward-Thinking Partner With Dresser Wayne
With 650 vehicle fueling stations in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Poland, the company is continuously exploring ways to develop new alternative fuels and bring them to market.
May 01, 2009
Small Change Leads To Big Shrink Dollars: Shrinking The Opportunity By Keeping The Cash Drawer Closed
Shrink, loss, theft, call it what you will. The bottom line is that employees are helping themselves to your company’s cash at an alarming rate, creating a negative impact on profitability.
January 19, 2009
Counterfeit Money Entering Circulation Increasing Significantly
Retailers experience theft in various forms including cash shrinkage, armed robbery and the passing of counterfeit notes. In 2008, Dallas police reported that arrests for note counterfeiting were up 84% over 2007 and they expect significant increases through 2009.
November 24, 2008
Cash Room Automation: A “Revolution” Has Begun
Cash handling, checking in and out sales clerk tills, and reconciliation of cash to the POS system remains a labor intensive, inefficient process for most retailers. In spite of a growing percentage of sales transactions conducted with credit or debit cards, the actual total value of cash handled continues to grow.
November 01, 2008
Fundamentals Of Running A Sound Business
From fuel costs to high credit card fees to penny pinching consumers, in-stores sales are getting significantly impacted.
March 10, 2008
Eliminating Cash Shrinkage
Eliminating cash shrinkage remains an elusive goal for most store operators. The basic necessity of multiple employees handling cash throughout the day complicates the ability to manage cash. The cash management processes which retailers have employed to date have reduced cash shrinkage, but by no means have eliminated it.
March 10, 2008
Evolution Of Cash Management And The Retailer
From Till Balancing and robbery prevention to cash security. today’s convenience retailers need a total cash management solution.
January 01, 2008
Identifying More Effective Profit-Building Strategies
Do you really know what’s driving the business? Willard Bishop has learned that it’s not always what most

Circle K Pushes Finds A Solution
To address the many challenges associated with the integration of financial products and services, Circle K turned to Alliance Data, a leading provider of payment processing solutions to convenience and petroleum industries.

Streamlining Communication With Castelle Faxpress
Crown Central Petroleum needed a practical, economic answer to the many problems afflicting their district reporting, maintenance authorization and purchase order processes.

Cenex Ampride Interior Details
Signage, murals highlight the Cenex Ampride retail brand.

Cumberland Farms Networks Infrastructure
Its network of retail stores, gas stations, and a support system including petroleum, dairy and grocery distribution operations spans 11 states across the Northeast and Florida, making it the largest convenience store and petroleum marketers in the Northeast.

Dresser Wayne Launches Advanced Fuel Dispensers
A high-volume national retailer wanted to add fuel sales to its offerings, but was apprehensive that unreliable dispensers would damage its customer reputation. The challenge for Dresser Wayne was to develop an intelligent fuel dispenser with fail-safe reliability.

7-Eleven Deploys, Consolidates Servers With VMware
As with many organizations, 7-Eleven’s process for deploying new servers was lengthy and costly, frequently hindering the allocation of server resources for development and testing.

7- Eleven Upgrades Its Strategic Retail System
After a detailed analysis of costs and key business continuity factors, the Dallas-based retailer chose to upgrade to a Microsoft Windows Server System.

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